Heart Failure News & Features
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Best Exercises for Heart Failure
Activity may be just what the doctor ordered for your heart failure. Here are some of the best exercises to keep your ticker working like clockwork.
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Foods to Avoid With Congestive Heart Failure
By making a few dietary changes and learning to short-circuit some eating habits, people with heart failure may feel better and ease uncomfortable swelling.
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CBD: Safe or Effective for Heart Failure?
CBD oil is made from cannabis plants but won’t make you high. Still, this natural supplement could interact with some heart medicines. Find out what you need to know before you try CBD oil for heart failure.
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How to Manage Heart Failure With Lifestyle Changes
Want to know what changes you can make to manage heart failure? Read on for steps you can take to better your health and heart.
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Restful Sleep Could Help Ward Off Heart Failure
Researchers found that of over 400,000 adults, those with the healthiest sleep patterns were 42% less likely to develop heart failure over 10 years, versus people with the least healthy habits.
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Many Seniors With Heart Failure Take 10-plus Meds
When admitted, 84% of the patients were taking five or more medications and 42% were taking 10 or more.
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Stress, Anger May Worsen Heart Failure
Patients who reported experiencing anger in the week before the mental stress test had worse resting diastolic pressure, the researchers found.
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FDA Approves Diabetes Drug for Type of Heart Failure
The FDA today approved a new use for the diabetes drug, dapagliflozin (Farxiga), to reduce the risk of a hospital stay or death in people who have a type of heart failure.
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Not All Heart Failure Patients Get Same Level of Care, Study Finds
After adjusting for a number of factors, her team found that Hispanic patients were 17% less likely to be admitted to a heart specialty unit, and black patients were 9% less likely.
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Bernie Sanders Treated for Blocked Artery
Sanders, 78 -- the oldest candidate on the campaign trail -- felt chest discomfort during a rally Tuesday evening in Las Vegas. He is now recovering in a Las Vegas hospital, the campaign said.
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Can People in Heart Failure Safely Reduce Diuretics?
Diuretics help people with heart failure reduce excess fluids that can cause shortness of breath, swollen legs, coughing and weight gain.
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Heart Failure Hospitalizations Spike When Flu Season Peaks
On average, as many as 1 in 5 heart failure hospitalizations appear to be triggered by the flu during the months when influenza viruses are circulating widely.
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Could a Little Drinking Help Those With Heart Failure?
Heart failure patients who drank in moderation -- a drink a day for women, two for men -- had an average survival that was a year longer than nondrinkers, the researchers found.
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Have Heart Failure? Flu Shot May Save Your Life
People who were recently diagnosed with heart failure and got a flu shot cut their risk of premature death by 18 percent, compared with not getting a shot, according to a new study from Denmark.
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Study Again Links Obesity, Heart Failure Survival
A new study is the latest to confirm the so-called "obesity paradox," a puzzling pattern that researchers have noted for years: Obese patients with heart disease tend to survive longer than their normal-weight counterparts.
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Too Much Meat, Dairy Tied to Heart Failure Risk
Heart failure can shorten life expectancy. And because no cure exists, prevention -- through diet and lifestyle -- is vital, the researchers noted.
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Flu Shot a Lifesaver for Heart Failure Patients
Researchers found that an annual flu vaccine reduced patients' risk of death by 50 percent during the flu season and by 20 percent during the rest of the year.
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Defibrillators May Do More Harm to Kidney Patients
The chances of being hospitalized for heart failure were 49 percent greater for kidney disease patients with an implanted defibrillator than for those who did not have the device, according to the study by researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the University of Washington.
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Testing 30-Day Death Risk From Heart Failure
Researchers develop 13-point assessment
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Can Babies Help Heart Patients?
Umbilical cord stem cells could be a treatment for heart failure, small study suggests
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Artery Calcium May Predict Heart Attack, Stroke
Factors such as cholesterol and blood pressure might be less of a concern, study contends
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High Salt Intake May Double Heart Failure Risk
Study offers another reason to watch your intake
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Study: Aspirin Safe for Heart Failure Patients
Large trial comparing it to warfarin finds aspirin not tied to more hospitalizations or deaths
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As Weight Creeps Up, So Does Risk of Heart Failure
But losing a few pounds might help decrease the damage, cardiologist suggests
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Heart Failure Patients Living Longer
Researchers chock it up to better meds, as patients live longer and better
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